Jeff Adams is an award-winning author and pastor. He lives in Arizona with his wife and daughter. He teaches what he’s learned, and he learns so that he may teach.
Jan Apilado is an author and chaplain, along with her husband, for three different military organizations. They are retired pastors living in the Oregon Cascade mountains.
James Stuart Bell is a publishing veteran and compiler of this volume and approximately forty other volumes of short stories. He has cover credit on more than one hundred books and owns Whitestone Communications.
Holly Blevins is a wife and mom living in Berryville, Virginia, where she’s a youth leader at BLAZE ministries. She loves leading worship, hiking, and writing.
Laura L. Bradford is an award-winning poet and author. Her works have appeared in CHICKEN SOUP and GUIDEPOSTS books, as well as other compilations.
AnnaLee Conti, ordained minister and teacher, resides in the Mid-Hudson Valley, New York, with her pastor husband, Bob. She has published books, short stories, and articles.
Jenni Davenport is a Midwest mom who works as an editor during the day, is a freelancer at night, and has a circus of kids in her house every weekend.
Betty Johnson Dalrymple is a contributor to numerous devotional books, such as God Allows U-Turns, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Love Is a Verb. She facilitates a grief support group.
Brenda Dillon has a horse farm in Michigan and would rather be in the barn than in the kitchen. Her love for Jesus is the pivot point in her life.
Beth Duewel is a mother of three, trying to hit the mark with her mom’s meatloaf recipe for Jerry. The paper angel still tops the Christmas tree. Coming in 2017: Fix-Her-Upper: Hope and Laughter Through a God Renovated Life! by Beth Duewel and Rhonda Rhea.
Anita Estes resides in the Hudson Valley with her husband and various pets. She is in Who’s Who of American Teachers. She is the author of When God Speaks and Letters to God on a Prodigal Son.
Virginia Rose Fairbrother has been a pastor’s wife, ESL teacher, and writer. She and David have been married forty-six years. They have three children and six grandchildren.
Ellen Farrington’s works are published online and in several books and magazines. She holds advanced degrees in the biological sciences and lives with her family in New England.
Anna M. Gregory and her husband are blessed with five sons and numerous grandchildren. She writes devotionals as God gives her the words to encourage others.
Dorothy J. Haire is a retired speech-language pathologist and a retired pastor who has earned four degrees. She is writing a commentary on the book of James.
Charles Earl Harrel served as a pastor for thirty years. He has more than 350 published works.
Cassie Harris is an aspiring author who loves to watch God at work. She is attending Grace College and pursuing a degree in journalism and biblical studies.
Gail R. Helgeson continues to daily put her trust in God. She finds joy in writing, travel, and spending time with her husband and two grown children.
Charles J. Huff lives in Aurora, Illinois, with his wife of forty-plus years. He has been published at christiandevotions.us. Find his blog at chashuff.wordpress.com.
LaRose Karr enjoys speaking and ministering to God’s people. Her family is her greatest blessing. She believes her writing is a gift from God and gives Him all the glory!
Donna Lee (Shane) Loomis is a wife of fifty years, mother, and grandmother. Family, children, writing, and sharing God’s love are her greatest passions.
Joyce Starr Macias is a freelance writer and a retired newspaper reporter. She specializes in stories about her personal walk with God that have appeared in several magazines and books.
Marleen McDowell and her family pioneer in their solar home deep in the Cascade mountains. Marleen enjoys the forest animals, gardening, canning, sewing, and sharing Jesus through her writings.
Marybeth Mitcham is an emerging freelance author whose writings have been published online and in the Christmas Moments #2 anthology.
Susan Allen Panzica is a speaker, Bible teacher, writer of the Eternity Cafe blog, and executive director of Justice Network, which raises awareness about human trafficking.
Marty Prudhomme is a freelance writer who has written and taught Bible studies for twenty years. She serves as Louisiana vice president of Leaders Training for Aglow International.
Janice Richardson writes Christian articles and stories focusing on how God is impacting people’s lives. She resides in Calgary, Alberta, with her husband and the youngest of three sons.
Bobbie Roper is a retired pastor’s wife and mother of four and has ten grandchildren. She is a women’s Bible study teacher, seminar leader, and freelance writer.
Bill Shane (October 11, 1923—March 12, 2003) was a Colorado native. Bill devoted his life, from the age of eight, to God, family, and friends. A self-taught man, he was ingenious, inventive, hardworking, trustworthy, charitable, and creative. A loving, caring family man who believed God had a special purpose for his family and supported that in the way he lived his life.
David Michael Smith is a writer of inspirational short stories, a church deacon, a faithful husband, and a loving father from Georgetown, Delaware. Email him at davidandgeri@hotmail.com.
Evelyn Rhodes Smith and her husband, Ted, live in Edgewood Summit, a retirement community in Charleston, West Virginia. Her stories appear in A CUP OF COMFORT series and volumes for Bethany House Publishers.
Ray Stenner was forced to retire due to illness, but keeps busy with renovations and volunteer work with his loving wife, Rose, and enjoys time with their family.
Delores E. Topliff lives near Minneapolis. She loves Jesus, family, grandchildren, friends, writing, college teaching, mission trips, travel, and her small farm.
Faith Turnet is a North Carolina veteran educator and enjoys travel. She speaks to churches through her Devoted Diva Ministry.
Susan L. Tuttle lives in Michigan, where she’s happily married to her best friend, is a home-schooling mom of three, and loves to write encouraging stories.
Elfriede Volk has been married for fifty-three years and has four children and eight grandchildren. She and her husband work as volunteer missionaries in various parts of the world.
Susan M. Watkins is featured in multiple publications and on CBN.com. Additional credits include Gloria Gaynor’s We Will Survive and Max Lucado’s HisIsMine.com.
Melinda Wright (as told to Anita Estes) is the wife of a church planter, mother of three, and grandmother of four. She loves cooking, hiking, entertaining, camping, and watching how God brings forth life.
Dr. Joshua F. Younce is a chiropractic physician in the western suburbs of Chicago. He served as team doctor for Wheaton Academy. Josh is married to Cheri, with two children, Sydney and Jackson.